Summary: A Time to Kill, written by John Grisham, is about a ten year old black girl, Tonya Hailey, who gets raped by two local white men Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard. The two men are immediately found and arrested by the local sheriff, Sheriff Ozzie Walls, and sentenced to prison. In the meantime the girl’s father, Carl Lee Hailey, is planning to murder the two men who hurt his daughter. When Carl Lee is found guilty a young, ambitious lawyer agrees to take on his case and fight for his freedom. As all this is going on one of the brothers of the men who raped Tonya has hired the help of the local branch of the KKK to get revenge on Carl Lee. Read the book A Time to Kill to figure out if Carl Lee Hailey is found guilty or not.
A Time to Kill
Summary:
A Time to Kill, written by John Grisham, is about a ten year old black girl, Tonya Hailey, who gets raped by two local white men Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard. The two men are immediately found and arrested by the local sheriff, Sheriff Ozzie Walls, and sentenced to prison. In the meantime the girl’s father, Carl Lee Hailey, is planning to murder the two men who hurt his daughter. When Carl Lee is found guilty a young, ambitious lawyer agrees to take on his case and fight for his freedom. As all this is going on one of the brothers of the men who raped Tonya has hired the help of the local branch of the KKK to get revenge on Carl Lee. Read the book A Time to Kill to figure out if Carl Lee Hailey is found guilty or not.